Posted on 07/17/2002 1:49:11 PM PDT by CreekerFreeper
Suppressed speech. Religious oppression. Suffocation of an independent press. An economy run by the state to serve the end goals of the state. Relegation of the individual to slavery. Sound familiar. You say: Communist Russia. You are wrong. Mainland China.
From the end of World War II to the end of the 1980’s the United States stood with our Allies in Europe and around the world, waging a battle to contain and defeat the Soviet Union. Words such as “domino theory” and “red menace” came into the lexicon; words that today seem almost archaic. If history has taught us anything, is that it sometimes pays to be honest and forthright. Simply put: China presents a clear threat to freedom-loving people the world over.
What baffles me is that most elected officials and business leaders are selecting a path of ‘engagement’ that transfers our most advanced technologies and creates a trade deficit from the import of cheap goods made with enslaved labor. The worst of it is the fact that many of the companies are simply front organizations for the Chinese military and allied industries. Yes, we’re simply financing the build-up and modernization of the Chinese military with our money and preferential economic treaties.
Why is it that we continue to blindly look at China’s belligerent behavior with naïve ambivalence? Why is it their military occupation of vital naval chokepoints and installations right here in our hemisphere, such as the Panama Canal Zone, causes no alarm? Moves such as these 20 years ago by the former Soviet Union would have been viewed as acts of aggression against our Nation.
The newly released Pentagon report has sounded the warning bell: “The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is said to be spending [possibly as much as an 18% increase this year over last with some analysts suggesting 4x’s over last year’s budget] and innovating with an eye on broader aims: supporting its economic rise and countering the United States as a Pacific ‘adversary’. China’s leaders view the military as necessary to ensure that China’s economic power will rise; to protect important national interests; and to support China’s eventual emergence as a great power and the preeminent power in Asia.”—Pentagon Report
What disturbs me are the apologists who call for free trade, who join the chorus calling for engagement and calling China a strategic partner. China’s own statements indicate they do not want to be a strategic partner. Their intention is to push the United States out of Asia, then use their military muscle to threaten our friends and allies, such as Japan and the Philippines.
What has history taught us? Little or nothing, if we fail to recognize that communism is not dead. It is alive and well in China. Communism’s expansionist tendencies still exist and it dictators are still determined to enslave mankind under the yoke of state-sponsored repression. Witness the acts China’s military government commits against their own people (and the people of Tibet): the forced abortions; the economic enslavement of the working class and the murder of Christian missionaries—to name a few examples.
Remember what has history taught us: “Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.” – Haile Selassie
Let us resolve ourselves to vigilance and move forward to meet the challenge before us.
Wrong again. The USA under a democracy.
I would rather fight than switch. Time to restore liberty here.
And a fiscal burden of government 2X lower than the one imposed by DC.
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